General Knowledge Quiz

[Gloster]

Who was Stanley Baldwin’s well-known first cousin?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Kipling.

 

[Gloster]

Kipling.

Correct. Now you must compose another question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

OK. Let's move away from politics.
Who is the only person to have played County cricket and league (top 4 English divisions) football on the same day?

 

[SuspectUsual]

OK. Let's move away from politics.
Who is the only person to have played County cricket and league (top 4 English divisions) football on the same day?

Chris Balderstone? Leicestershire and Lincoln or something?

 

[xotGD]

Ian Botham?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Ian Botham?

Sorry not Beefy.

 

[DaleCooper]

Sorry not Beefy.

What about this?

Chris Balderstone? Leicestershire and Lincoln or something?

 

[Gloster]

I think there was a well known cricketer who also played for one of the London teams (Arsenal?, or The Arsenal as it was probably still known as) in the 1950s. His name...Bedser, possibly.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Chris Balderstone? Leicestershire and Lincoln or something?

Chris Balderstone it was. During the day he played cricket for Leicestershire against Derbyshire at Chesterfield then in the evening played for Doncaster Rovers at home against Brentford.

Your turn at the crease.

 

[SuspectUsual]

What - in the UK - is a furth?

 

[John Griffiths]

A small area of woodland, like a copse?

 

[DaleCooper]

What - in the UK - is a furth?

furth, further, furthest

 

[SuspectUsual]

Neither of those. Although it is a geographic term of sorts

 

[DaleCooper]

An estuary

 

[Peterthegreat]

A Ford?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Neither of those

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Progress? As in a derivative of forth - so go forth?

 

[DaleCooper]

Is it an administrative division?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Not those.

A clue.

Furths are different in Scotland

 

[Gloster]

An area of gorse upland?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Not those.

A clue.

Furths are different in Scotland

A firth?

Or is that too obvious?

 

[DaleCooper]

A species of smurf?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Not those either

 

[SuspectUsual]

A further clue

There are 15 in Wales, 13 in Ireland, and 6 in England

 

[John Griffiths]

Are they a non-Caledonian Form of Munro - a point 3000 ft above sea level?

 

[DaleCooper]

A further clue

There are 15 in Wales, 13 in Ireland, and 6 in England

Mountains over xxx metres high (cf. Munro)?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Mountains over xxx metres high (cf. Munro)?

Pretty much spot on. A furth is a mountain over 3,000 feet (the qualifying height for a Munro) in the British Isles but outside Scotland

 

[SuspectUsual]

Are they a non-Caledonian Form of Munro - a point 3000 ft above sea level?

Apologies, just realised you got in there first.

All yours

 

[John Griffiths]

Thanks- I haven't anything ready, so open floor.